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塥 is a phono-semantic compound formed with the earth radical 土 on the left, indicating its semantic category of soil or land, and the phonetic component 鬲 on the right, supplying the pronunciation "gé". 鬲 originally functioned as an independent character for an ancient clay tripod cauldron. The character's literal meanings are dry earth, parched soil, or a raised mound of dirt. Its usage is highly specialized, largely confined to geographical and agricultural contexts for describing soil types, and it has no distinct simplified form in modern writing.
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